Dylan Mulvaney has decided to be a man for the wrong reason.
The debt ceiling negotiation. There are winners and losers but I don’t think it is going to stop the inevitable.
And I am back from Mexico and there were a lot of hot takes over the weekend.
This is Insane
Let’s start with a little insanity.
Here is Dylan Mulvaney, the guy who started the Budvestite craze, saying he is now interested in women. Now, that would just make him a straight guy, right?
Listen:
Dylan Mulvaney comes out as a lesbian.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 28, 2023
He is going to date a woman because he wants to get pregnant. Ugh!
Deal Is Done!
The debt ceiling has been raised after the negotiations. There is a huge argument from establishment Republicans and Conservatives as to whether it was a good deal.
Here are some of the benefits:
It cuts spending year-over-year, including a rollback of nondefense discretionary spending to FY22 levels – while fully funding the Veterans Administration’s medical programs.
This is a win but this should never have been on the table in the first place.
It limits topline federal spending to 1% annual growth for the next six years – a huge cut from the Biden budget proposal.
Problem here is the budget is in the trillions of dollars. This does not seem like much of a win.
It will help lift millions out of poverty by enacting work requirements for food stamps and welfare benefits. The 1996 welfare reform bill made virtually the same changes. This will mean more Americans will be working and paying taxes, and fewer Americans will depend on the government. This has big, long-term government and human benefits.
This is great but, again, should have been required a long time ago.
It claws back tens of billions in unspent COVID-19 funds, including $400 million from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Global Health Fund” that would have sent taxpayer money to China.
Common sense.
Billions more will be cut other programs, making this the largest total rescissions package in history.
I’d like a little more detail here. Reality is more cuts are going to be necessary. Good start though.
The deal puts in place the first-ever statutory administrative pay-as-you-go rule to hold President Biden accountable for the full cost of executive rules and regulations. This should save taxpayers trillions of dollars.
Again, a start. Old Joe’s executive orders and bureaucratic rules should be challenged in court. We may need an amendment to the Constitution to really fix the over extension by the bureaucracies.
It cuts red tape and streamlines important infrastructure and energy projects – and cuts costs with the first significant reform to environmental policy since 1982.
Need more information on this. Seems to me this could be overridden by Biden himself.
It slashes funding for Biden’s new IRS agents and eliminates the total fiscal year 2023 staffing funding request for new agents.
Good but still need more information. I like DeSantis’ plan to apply a consumption tax and abolish the IRS.
It restarts student loan repayments and requires borrowers to be responsible for paying off their student loan debts, saving taxpayers an estimated $5 billion per month.
This was never going to happen because of inflation and it is unconstitutional. This is not a victory.
It has a bold requirement to “Make Congress Work Again” by compelling a functioning appropriations process and imposing a temporary 99% continuing resolution level cap until all 12 appropriations bills are passed and become law.
I love this idea. It is meant to keep focus. I don’t know what will happen when bills don’t get passed. Can you say, “executive order”?
It protects senior citizens, veterans and our national security by fully funding critical veterans’ programs and defense priorities, while preserving Social Security and Medicare.
This isn’t much of a win because Democrats would have passed this anyway. Too much controversy and Democrats don’t mind spending.
It blocks Democrat demands for new taxes and reject all $5 trillion of Biden’s proposed tax increases.
That’s great but is a benefit for Biden. His tax plan is extremely unpopular and I’m sure he was hoping Republicans would block it.
Conservatives like Bill Lee and Ted cruise are less than thrilled for the bill because it doesn’t stop $4 trillion on spending (that’s where the limits has been raised too).
Lindsey Graham, who is no Conservative, doesn’t like the cap in military spending and wants continued spending for Ukraine, which could be in jeopardy. .
The big loser in this whole thing is Joe Biden.
- He said he wouldn’t negotiate and ended up doing it.
- He gave into the job requirements for social benefits.
- He refunded defense.
- He will lose that $400 million from the COVID payments and he was depending on that for some of his green new deal crap.
Biden got his ass kicked even if Conservatives did not get all they wanted.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/republicans-win-debt-ceiling-heres-why-house-gop-should-support-deal
.https://conservativebrief.com/reporter-kjp-73572/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=757
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lindsey-graham-vows-undo-absurd-bipartisan-debt-deal-calls-it-disaster-defense